Cristina Branco is an indefatigable ambassador of Portuguese culture around the world. Over the last two decades, she has established herself as one of the most prolific singers today, producing...
Mísia, artistic name of Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar born in Porto on June 18, 1955, is a Portuguese singer, considered one of the most important fado singers today. Until...
Hermínia Silva was born at the São José Hospital in Lisbon, on October 23, 1907, to an unknown father and Josefina Augusta, a native of Samora Correia and widow of...
One of the voices of fado, Gisela João is an important interpreter of current Portuguese music, recognized with the Blitz, Time Out, Expresso awards and the Golden Globe for Best...
Ricardo Alexandre Paulo Ribeiro was born on August 19, 1981, in Lisbon. He was raised in Bairro da Ajuda, having started singing at the age of 9 for his friends....
Katia Duarte d'Almeida d'Oliveira Rosado Guerreiro (23 February 1976), better known simply as Katia Guerreiro, is a Portuguese fado singer and ophthalmologist born in South Africa. She divides her life...
Source: museudofado.pt Ana Laíns sings for the first time in public at the age of 6. Born in Tomar, she discovered her talent for music at an early age and...
Maria Helena Gentil do Carmo, better known as Lenita Gentil (Marinha Grande, August 6, 1948), is a Portuguese fado singer. Lenita started singing in public at the age of 5....
Ada Antunes Pereira was born in the parish of Castelo which led her to adopt the stage name of Ada de Castro, a synonymous of her neighbourhood of birth. She...
Buba Espinho, a young singer from Alentejo aged just 24, brings with him the legacy of several generations of traditional Portuguese music. Born in Beja, he has experienced and felt...
Her baptism name is Maria da Conceição da Costa Marques; she was born in Porto on the 25 May 1942. Her mother had 17 sons, but she currently has only...
Maria Severa is, perhaps, the first fado icon in Portugal. She only lived for 26 years – from 1820 to 1846 –, but Maria Severa Onofriana, her full name, revolutionized...
Cidália Moreira is a Portuguese singer, actress and fado singer born in Olhão, Portugal, in 1944. She is known as the “gypsy fado singer”. From an early age, she demonstrated...
Since 1993 he has participated in several festivals where he got some 1st and 2nd places. Through fado he obtained 1st and 3rd places in the Grande Noite de Fado in Porto and Lisbon. He also participated in television programs such as “Os principals” (semifinals) and “Big Show sic” where he won the final of the category “os cantores”.
Like other European cisterns, it represents both in terms of tuning and in terms of the construction of its interior and exterior, one of the direct developments of the Renaissance...
Maria do Carmo de Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade (Lisbon, August 20, 1984), artistically known simply as Carminho is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of Teresa Siqueira,...
António Mourão, artistic name of António Manuel Dias Pequerrucho, (Montijo, June 3, 1935 - Lisbon, October 19, 2013) was a Portuguese fado singer. Interpreter of the well-known theme "Ó Tempo...
Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte was born in a house on Travessa de Santa Quitéria, in São Bento, on February 29, 1892 — an unusual date that only happens every four years....
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, or just Adriano (April 9, 1942 – October 16, 1982) was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His...